Sandton - Nedbank 5th Floor Sandton
Pretoria - very mild shaking of windows and vibrations felt for 20-30 seconds
Centurion - Quite exciting - the first time I felt it so certainly, and for at least 30 to 60 seconds.
Kroonstad - Vibrating walls and windows, roof creaking.
Pretoria - My first earthquake expriance
Johannesburg - The roof started to move and all things in the office where moving.
Benoni - Light shaking of building
Alberton - lasted for up to 2 min
Edenvale - No damage , 3 secs of tremble
Johannesburg - It was a tremor.
Midrand - Mustek Midrand All buildings shook
Johannesburg - No damage but everything rattled and shook for about 10-15 seconds
Walkerville Johannesburg - lasted about 30 - 40 seconds, crockery rattling, sahiking & trembling felt
Pretoria - First time I felt a earthquake this strong
Johannesburg - Felt shaking, was quite nervous but no damage.
Moreleta Park - My TV almost fell over
Parys - First Time I felt an earthquake. Quite exciting. Super glad I was not in a mine underground!!
Johannesburg, Fourways - At least 10 seconds of light sustained shaking peaked with strong shaking - building moved at the peak.
Kempton Park - Could feel the floor moving slightly. Gave a feeling of movement in the building.
Vanderbijlpark - Surprised
rustenburg - building shaked/rattling
johannesburg - Lasted about a minute in total with about 15 to 20 seconds of strong shaking. pictures on walls threatening to come off and shelfing wobbling during the peak. low rumbling sound throughout. happened at around 12H30 more or less.
Sandton, Rivonia Road - Not that bad!
Northriding - Started as light tremours then got stronger and the subsided again. For about 30 seconds
Centurion - Quite a scare, we evacuated our school children.
Paulshoff - At least 45 seconds. The building shook
Stilfontein - Never experienced that lasted for about 6 seconds. Everyone at work ran out the building
FRANKFORT - WEIRD FEELING! LASTED FEW SECONDS.
La Lucia - Felt the building shake!!! flip!!!
edenvale - Moderate shaking lasted up to +- 1 min
Pretoria - Felt floor moving from side to side on the 3rd floor.
Alrode - Wow, that was the worst i ever felt.
Midrand - Last for about 30 sec. Light shake
Randburg - No damage, slight shaking, tremors were felt for about 15 seconds. Started off with sound only, like the rumbling of thunder, then there were waves of tremors, with one of the intermediate peaks of tremor being the most severe.
Johannesburg - Very strong shaking was felt. Office furniture etc moved. Ground shook. No damage
Vereeniging - No Damage felt like strong wind on roof and windows
Johannesburg - This was the worst tremor that I have ever felt (in 70+ years). Our whole house shook and everything rattled but no damage noticed. The shaking lasted at least a minute and seemed to come in waves of varying intensity.
Pretoria - Light shaking and windows rattle on 1st floor for around 15 sec.
Midrand - Felt two separate tremors. First lasted about 5 seconds followed by one that lasted almost a minute with continuous shaking and vibrations
pretoria - It was definitely scary, I felt it for like few minutes and the whole house was shaking very bad... Is it going to be again later today?
Johannesburg - 1st tremor/quake I've experienced.
sandton - the tremor lasted quite a while. could see other buildings in sandton CBD shaking.
Alberton - Roof and walls shaking.
Johannesburg - Our entire building shook, desk contents rattled significantly. No damage, we evacuated the office
Hennopspark, Centurion - geen skade, was verby voor ons werklik besef het wat dit was, eers gedink die gautrain het ontspoor ......
Centurion - continuous movement, felt like two events
Pretoria - Moderate shaking, even computer screen vibrating. Building was evacuated.
sandton - No damage
Johannesburg - No known damage; strong shaking for +- 2 minutes, followed by decreasing vibration for about another 2 minutes.
Potchefstroom - Almost shat myself....i want to know the cause and if it is over....
Midrand - Prolonged light shaking. No damage.
Kempton Park - strong shaking and some objects fell
Elandsfontein - Very unsetteling
Johannesburg - It felt like the building was leaning to the left, tremor lasted for more than one minute. Extremely scary.....still traumatised.
Johannesburg - No damage
Jhb - Roodepoort - Started strongly....easily lasted between 60 - 90 seconds
Pretoria - What an lunchtime announcement.
Centurion - Furniture shaking lasted 20-30 seconds
Sunninghill, Rivonia - My desk started to shake and vibrate. Some of the girls in the office ran out of the building.
johannesburg - light shaking for several seconds, perhaps 30 seconds at most.
klerksdorp - Things came of cupboards. Lasted between 15sec-45sec. Alarms of houses and cars going of every where
Sandton - No Damage
Durban - Mild Shaking suspended fire pipes swinging
Bedfordview - I was having a nap and was woken up by the shaking...being half asleep I thought I was just dreaming
Rustenburg - it started out as if an helicopter was passing over the house. but then got stronger. went on for about 30 seconds. never felt anything like this before. everything was moving, rumbling and shaking.
Evander - I thought it was my imagination, felt my chair shaking
Illovo (Sandton) - no damage to property but very scary. it felt never ending.
Johannesburg north - Ground shook beneath me, windows vibrated and water in my glass moved around moderately
Randburg - There was a deafening sound and then the tremor, it felt like one of those dreams where you feel like you falling, weird and very scary. the entire warehouse shook (it is 5000cubic meter warehouse)
Highveld Techno Park, Pretoria - It was crazy... We all started running outside, very alarmed...
Stilfontein - It shook so bad that our power went out. Ceiling boards fell out and the steel structures shook. One of the houses cracked right through the middle.
klerksdorp - i was running like a headless chicken perhaps the chicken wanted to lay eggs" i hope mine workers are okay
Pretoria - 2nd Floor of building - scary!
westdene - i have no damage but eveything in my house was shaking
Melrose Arch - Scary
Durban - In the office & felt light shaking / vibrating of my desk & chair, and floor. Nothing Serious. My colleagues confirmed they felt the same thing.
roodepoort - I was at university when it happened, it was truly terrifying as the whole building was shaking and it felt as if the building was going to collapse.
Centurion - Felt initial light tremor which escalated suddenly to intense shake after which a light tremor kept going for 30 seconds
Bedfordview - No damage, but very anxious moment. Our chairs were shaking.
Pretoria - scary
Gauteng - Windows rattling, monitor shaking and desks moving slighly
Centurion - Everyone started going crazy... We thought it was people on the floor above us stamping there feet until we realized that it was actually an earthquake. It was a very scary feeling - My first earthquake experience
Durban - Second floor office, everything "wobbled". Was felt on ground floor too
Wesselsbron - No damage but definatly felt it
Sasolburg - No damage, glasses and ornimants moved a little
Roodepoort - very slight shaking that increased in strength until our large double storey house shook.
Germiston - Pretty scary and went on for over 1 min
Lonehill Sandton - Windows and wooden staircase rattling. Duration only about 30 seconds.
Gauteng - Scary enough considering we DO NOT HAVE EARTHQUAKES in South Africa.
Randburg - Weird feeling
Rustenburg - Lasted approximately 2 minutes.
Sandton - No damage, felt strong tremors for about 30 seconds, never felt it so strong here.
Pretoria - Was at the office. Building structure could be felt flexing. Had two tremors with the second one more pronounced. Quite alarming. Multi-storey building, was checked by structural engineer, no structural damage.
Vereeniging - Windows and blinds shaking
Potchefstroom - House shaking, windows rattling, things falling. Hate that!!!
Woodmead - windows and items on tables shook and rattled - lasted approx 30seconds or bit more
Sandton - Strong shaking and rumbling lasting about between 60 to 90 seconds. Vase fell off cupboard.
Johannesburg - Windows rattling and people walking out of houses to see what is happening. No damage caused
Pretoria Nord - Ein sehr komisches Gefuehl, wenn man ein Erdbeben zum erstan Mal spuert! 12.23 Uhr,erschreckend, keine Schaeden
Pretoria Nord - Ein sehr komisches Gefuehl, wenn man ein Erdbeben zum erstan Mal spuert! 12.23 Uhr,erschreckend, keine Schaeden
Pretoria - We all felt the tremor in the office, at first the tremors were very slight but they gradually increased in intensity and we realized windows were shaking as well as wooden walls and floors. No damaged caused. Must have lasted for about 30 to 60 secs.
Pretoria - No damage - minimal items vibrating off shelves.
Johannesburg - No damage. Lasted about 40s...had to chase my laptop around the kitchen counter
Pretoria, South Africa - two sets of tremors 30+ seconds from 12h24
Ventersdorp - I was busy digging a hole to plant a pole, then I felt the shaking, then I thought I did something that could cause it, was very scary...
Germiston - our entire office block shook was rather scary - No damage
Sandton - No discernible damage. Sounds and vibrations associated with a tremor, increasing in strength and producing a large degree of rattling of windows and other sounds. Many seconds pass, rattling decreases but even after no tremor discernible large windows still rattling a bit. Contacted family members by cell phone and landline to determine if they felt the tremor (which some jokingly reported as .001) and non-jokingly: .5 0r 1 in magnitude. Surprised to find out later from eNEWS channel that it w
Pretoria - Two waves, shaking lasting about 10 seconds each time. Windows rattling, as well as a distinct but light tremor felt through floor
Bedfordview - Shaking and rumbling, stopped and then started again. Lasted about 30 seconds.
Johannesburg - Started off with a little vibration and then there was a strong shake and then it went down again. Kept on going for a good couple of seconds before it stopped completely. Office furniture moved
Johannesburg - The quake was quite an exciting but scary experience. Some of my colleagues even evacuated the building.
Benoni - My mother stays in Klerksdorp. Their flats suffered damages. Flamwood walk
North Riding - 30 seconds of objects vibrating, very interesting experience!
farm near Bloemhof - We felt it and ran out of the house.
Alberton - Experienced strong shaking and rattling of windows. Could feel the tremors in the floors
Ilovo Sandton - Building and computers shaking
Pretoria - Was lying on my bed and all of a sudden it felt like a person was shaking it, but there was no one else in the room. Cupboards were vibrating and objects on my dresser were moving
Pretoria - vibration felt. no damage
Johannesburg - Rather long quake, but not very harsh. No damage
Mafikeng - Windows an desks shaking my home glasses falling cubourds shaking
RUSTENBURG - TREMOR FELT
Centurion - No damage to property but electrical equipment had to be grabbed in order to stop it from falling off the table.
Kimberley - No damage caused.
Johannesburg - No damage here. Nothing fell off walls or tables.
Craighall Park - Felt like there were two distinct tremor over the course of a minute, with a small gap inbetween
Woodmead - .. i feel the earth, move, under my feet..
roodepoort - scary
Parys - Scared the heck out of us. No structural damage. Shaked everything wildly though, some falling over.
Olifantsfontein - No damage. I'm from the 'struck' area, went through the one around 9 years ago. More or less same epicentre. Just hope and pray miners underground are ok!
Pretoria - Windows rattling, earth shaking, rumbling sound. Two tremors felt.
Magaliesburg - No damage.
Pretoria - Building was shaking, hanging objects were swinging, cooldrink in bottle was shaking around.
Sandton - felt tremor for about 20 seconds or so. no damage
Johannesburg, Victory Park - It wasn't severe shaking, but it seemed to carry on and on for a very long time. Intensely scary!
Pretoria East - Laptop and table shook for baout 30 seconds , moderately
JHB CBD - Building shook lasted 10-15 seconds very scary
Midrand - Kyalami - My chair and laptop shook and there was a buzzing sound in my ears whilst through out the entire tremor.
Maputo - I was working in the RHDHV-Moz office on the 8th Floor (Maputo City) and the building started shaking very slowly, but enough to make everyone here dizzy.
durban - It was crazy
Potchefstroom - It was strange at first, but when it got worse we left the building..
pretoria - we felt the floor n our desk shaking it we were nervous but it did not last long. no harm
christiana - It was only a light tremble for a few seconds.Did not at first realize what was happening.
Durban - we evacuted from our building
Doornpoort - Was so cooooooool
Edenvale - The whole building shook as well as the trees. Did not check how long it lasted (but felt like a long time).
Sandton - On the 9th floor of a building. It was bad.
Pelindaba - Shaking of the buildings
Centurion, Gauteng - Felt strong wind and the shaking & sounded like tapping....
Johannesburg - Many people shaken up and building evacuated.
Rosebank - A bit nauseating, very unsettled in the office
Pretoria - Was felt in offices all around, everybody went outside. Thought my desk was collapsing, then realised the building was shaking.
Rustenburg - No damage. Windows made rattling noise.
Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal` - The building where we work started to shake quite badly, this was the first time we have had an experience like this in the building.
Parktown - No damage reported yet in the area after earthquake.
Edenvale - Windows shook, building shook. Everyone noticed and were alarmed. Lady came running out the rest rooms.
Johannesburg - Linden. Felt like a large truck rumbling outside for a few seconds, then escalated and table vibrated and windows began rattling. Laptop screen was shaking back and forth. About 20 seconds of serious rattling and shaking and then it began to die down.
Gauteng - Weird,everything shook but was not dangerous
South Africa - The whole of SA felt this. Drill more, mine more... we all will suffer from your actions... your millions won't save you...
Vanderbijlpark - Strong tremors felt with various items, including the bed vibrating. No obvious damage observed. The tremors lasted about 60 seconds and the house shook as if it was hit by a very strong sudden wind. Windows rattled as well as burglar bars. You could feel it running from west to east through the whole house.
Westonaria - Felt the ground shaking - no damage
Pretoria - We thought someone has totaled a pillar in the basement....yeah, a moderate shaking.
Johannesburg, Gauteng - Building alarm was activated, full evacuation, one person fainted from shock.
Pretoria - Felt my flat shaking for a few seconds. No damage
pretoria - no damages. just cabinets shaking.
Hartbeespoort - Felt very strong shaking just after 12pm. It wasn't a gradual tremor, but more like several hard knocks, which kept on going for about 30 seconds. Glass rattling in large window panes, luckily no damage. Felt like a troop of baboons landing on ibr roof and going wild!
Kya Sands - All is good but everyone ran outside
Hyde Park - I Was in a meeting when i had this and the projector was shaking and we just feelt people screeeming was really and scary
Centurion - It is creepy. The tremor is strong, never like that before. I am on the fourth floor, look like the walls are shaking too.
Kyalami - This tremor seemed to go on for a long while..it appeared to subside and then started shaking again..the entire building was shaking..very scary
Pretoria - No damage but the tremor was felt with noticeable vibration of glass doors for atleast 30seconds...maybe a bit longer.
Klerksdorp - Only craceked window. Is there another one on its way? Please let know!!
Pretoria - Nothing is damaged but because I can't walk stairs of a broken leg I felt terrified having to walk down three levels out of the building. Scary and still shaking.
kempton park - was quite scary, the desk and floor shook, but no damage
Vanderbijlpark - I was in class on the NWU Vaal Triangle Campus, heard a rumbling in the air vents and felt the ground trembling, and both projectors wobbled a bit. Went on for about 25-30 seconds. Apparently the class directly below us did not feel a thing.
Pretoria - No damage
Johannesburg - Noknowledge of direct damage in this area.
Midrand - No Damage, woken from nap, confirmed by grandmother and sister.
Parktown North - no damage in the area, but will wait to see when i get home.
Three Rivers, Vereeniging - Nothing was damaged but the whole building was shaking, computers, cupboards everything, we are on the first floor and went down to the ground floor because we thought the building was busy collapsing.
jhb - None were damaged
Roodepoort - Double storey, timber mezzanine felt shaking and creacking audible
Pretoria cbd - Tables and chairs were shaking
Johannesburg - house shook and everything rattled
centurion - Strong shaking in centurion, windows shaked alot
amanzimtoti - felt light shaking and stuff moving
Rustenburg - My desk at the office was literally shaking, for a moment there i thought I was imagining things, I came to my senses and ran out the office, so did everyone else in my office block.
Klerksdorp - Very strong shaking. Lasted 45 - 60 seconds. Windows and doors were shaking and stuff falling out of cupboards. Minor damage to my house - small cracks and cornices pulling away from the walls.
Edenvale - Two distinct tremors felt, first for a few seconds and second for almost a minute. No damage.
Centurion - I am on the 2 floor of our Office building and felt my chair moving and my table shaking.
rustenburg north west - I felt the vibration while standing in spar shopping center body was vibrating aswell as could see the shelves shaking
East London - Did NOT feel it in East London
Kloof - My entire desk shook, thought my imagination was running wild.....
Benoni - No damage
Pretoria - It started lightly and then intensified for probably 15 seconds+
Bryanston - No damage but strong tremors felt and computers were vibrating on desks.
Randfontein - Felt two separate tremors. Just when the first one ended you could feel the second one coming. lasted about 2min from start to finish with continuous shaking and vibrations
pretoria - I felt the earthquake very mildly. Everything started shaking, it was frightening but very mild.
PRETORIA EAST - First time in my life i felt an earthquake the desk and chair in my office was shaking and i was shaking with the chair.
gaborone - computers were shaking
Randfontein - The office was moving....from left to right. My thoghts were "Just as the Word predicts, yesterday was the quake in China..... time is running out"
Pretoira - Weak shaking on the second floor, but lasted the longest I have experienced it. Scary.
johannesburg - Moderate shaking in house for about 40 seconds
CBD - Mild vibrations felt for a couple of seconds before the building started shaking. Cups on table moved. This was not a regular "tremor", street vendors scattered away from the buildings into the street. After the shaking, mild vibrations continued for a couple of seconds
Rosebank - Never felt a quack like this before in Jhb. Cups were tingling in the cupboards and everything was shaking. Scary!
pretoria west - No damage in elandspoort area. Pretoria gardens felt stronger shaking.
Sandton - Up on the third floor of a building in Sandton, shaking started during a business meeting. People in other offices started vacating out of fear, but it passed within 1/2 minutes.
Johannesburg - Sitting at desk in office felt light shaking of walls and underfoot. "Oh my goodness, what was that?" Everyone at School where I work felt it and were alarmed. Felt first tremor followed shortly after by a second one. No damage
PRETORIA - We were having a class in building 6 3rd floor, then we had the shaking of the earth 2 times, the first one was a strong shaking then the second one was a weak shaking, hopefully there are no damages happened so far.
Midrand - Large Mirror fell of wall and broke on the floor. The earthquake persisted for about 20-30 seconds
rosebank - no damage. shook for about 45 seconds. scary. colleagues just sat frozen not knowing what was going on. then it started dying off and we then started telling each other it was an earthquake.
Brooklyn - On the 3rd floor of our building - felt it quite hard
Jetpark - Extreme Shaking, things fell off of my desk and the whole building was shaking
Johannesburg - Weak shaking for about 5 minutes
ladybrand - It felt like the floor rolled not really a shake as such made me feel queasy
durban - furniture & office building started shaking from side to side. Evacuated and then building checked and given the ok. No damage
boksburg - Thankfully no damage. Trembling that shook a few things of shelves. Longest minute in my life
Klerksdorp - Shelves collapsing, windows breaking - physically SAW doorframe move. Electricity out. Walls cracked. Cupboard contents falling out.
kempton park - Felt our desk shake and windows were rattling. Coffee almost spilled over.
Randburg - It was scary literally seeing the things in the house shaking
rivonia - nothing was damaged but we were shaking and the tables and chairs in the office.
Lanseria - I felt 2 earthquakes- the second longer than the first (seemed to go forever). My whole house shook - walls included, windows rattled and the floor shook. My house felt like it was gently rocking. Very frightening experience!
Midrand - Building started shaking, subsided for 2 seconds and started shaking significantly again, Computer screens were literally tip toeing.
Pretoria - The ground was shaking lightly which started about 12h24 - almost like someone lightly bumped against your chair. Then is subsided a bit and started again stronger. The ground was shaking and you could hear a rumbling sound with windows rattling and computer screens and other loose objects rattling. The swimming pool water was moving about and the dogs were unsettled. This lasted for approximately 30 seconds and then subsided with nothing further. No damage or breakages.
Johannesburg - The office walls and metal supports were shaking, could feel the floor moving and everything in the office was shaking, swinging or rattling for about a minute, water in glass on my desk sloshing about, etc - we all ran out of the office.
Secunda - Sitting on the second floor of Sasol Technology Secunda the whole building was shaking at 12:34 today
Pietermaritzburg - It was approx. 12.24 when we felt the building shake. It lasted close to about 10 - 15 sec. We assumed it to be the local quarry, wondering why the blasting alarm had not gone off. We only realised afterwards that it was a tremor. Was indeed quite scary. The building swayed and I felt my desk move.
Johannesburg - Shaking lasting around 1 minute, glass, door frames etc... shaking continuously.
Bothaville - No damages, lasted for over 30 seconds
Vanderbijlpark - A very mild shaking that was strong enough to move things off Desks
Pretoria - No damage. The building was rumbling and shaking. Quite scary
Pretoria - Computer screens shaking, walls rumbling and some loose furniture shaking. Felt two distinct waves.
Johannesburg - No damage but could feel it on the 2nd floor of the building we are in
Gaborone - Very weak shaking in that at first i thought it was my chair inexplicably vibrating and only caught on when i registered the tremors through the soles of my shoes and funny sounds from the office wall
koster - very exciting
johannessburg - My property seems fine but i did witness my Star Wars bobble heads headbang
Randfontein - No damage but I got a big fright. Lights and mirrors inside the house was shaking.
Dainfern - Building not damaged (Bedrock is granitic). Ground wave felt for around 10 secs
Vanderbijlpark - Bit of a surprise, really. We don't expect quakes in these parts. No structural damage. Some things did fall off our desks, and my chair moved away from the desk (with me still on it).
Gauteng - Whole building was shaking, windows vibrating, no damage to property
Rustenburg - We were in the Math cass when we heard the earthquke...At first we thought it was a mining operation but my friend said that it was felt in Durban too...The we realised it was an earthquake and not a mining operation...Scary !
Robertsham Johannesburg - No damage. Lasted about 60 seconds. For the first 30 seconds the vibration was quite intense with the last 30 seconds less so. Doors were rattling. My 3 year old was quite scared - she said could feel something shaking in her toes.
Centurion - Just a few seconds of everything shaking and the solid concrete floor vibrating
pretoria - No damage, just the whole room shaking. I live on the 15 th floor so I guess I felt it more than the people in the ground
Honeydew, Johannesburg - Worst I've ever felt. Lasted almost two minutes. House shaking, windows rattling, roof creaking, and an eerie rumbling sound. Felt dizzy for a while afterwards.
Delmas Mpumalanga - Funiture and walls were wobbling lightly . Felt very eary .
Randburg - Felt the chair shake and the ceilings were shaking as well
Ferndale - Was a long tremor - about a minute I think and intensity varied but certainly made me nervous and i moved outside.
Gaborone - Floor of the Offices, Desks , Keyboard Vibrated for some seconds
pretoria - scary
Kameeldrift west - Coach shaking and windows rattling
vereeniging - No damage here but shaking was quite alarming. Rumbling sound and rushing wind
Rustenburg - I felt a 20 seconds shake, then when I looked around the office the files on the shelve looked like they were gonna fall. Then I ran out of the office, only to find out that all other people were long on the passage. They thought I am a sny as I was screaming. The shaking has stopped and hasn't repeated since.
Durban - No Damage. Tremor intense lasted for about 5 seconds.
Benoni - Frame's fell of the wall and one wall cracked
Vanderbijlpark - We were in class and suddenly the windows started to shake and then we felt the ground shaking. It lasted about 30 seconds.
Secunda - First I heard a noise and realise its the blinds moving and then I felt it underneath my feet. It stopped after about 30 seconds and resumed again for about 15 seconds
Kusile Power Station - fELT MY WHOLE OFFICE MOVE DUE TO THAT OUR OFFICES ARE CONTAINERS ON SITE.
Maputo - We live on the 16th floor of a high apartment building, and the whole house was swaying. Lamps were swinging, water in glasses trembling. What an unnerving feeling!
Rosslyn - 2nd one in my life, this one by far the strongest
Kimberley - No damage. Shaking lasted for a short while.
Johannesburg - I heard two bangs in the roof and the house rumbled. The dog barked and cowered. Everything on the shelves shook and rattled for about 15 seconds and then the shaking reduced. My laptop screen continued to shake gently for at least another minute after that.
DURBAN - Felt a light shaking
Pretoria East - walls, floor, desks were shaking and roof was creaking. luckily no damage
Johannesburg - Felt it!No damage...
klerksdorp - WEIRD, DRIVING TOWARDS CITY CENTRE FELT NOTHING IN THE VEHICLE AND WONDERED ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF PIGEONS FLYING ABOUT ABOVE THE BUILDINGS THEN EVERYBODY STREAMING INTO THE STREETS.
gauteng - We felt two distinct major "jolts" and with vibrations in between.nothing was thrown off desks, no damage to be seen and no injuries, this was significant to the previous tremor felt in pretoria
jhb - Windows were rattling and the floor literally shaking beneath for a more then normal while.. must have been for 5 mins.
sasolburg - We were in class teaching the kids when all of a sudden everything started to shake. Kids found it amusing... I was a bit freaked out! No damage.
Midrand, Johannesburg - The house, windows and the my office deskand coffee shook.
Pretoria - very scary it felt like the building was swinging. but likely nothing damaged
pretoria - felt the house shaking and all the windows, no damage
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Pretoria - Eish!
JOhannesburg - It seemed to last a very long time. We do have tremors in Johannesburg but have never experienced one as large as this before. House walls were trembling, crockery and fridge contents rattling. Quite scary!
Pretoria - Lasting about 30 seconds
Centurion - Weird ....not sure , never felt one before
Johannesburg - im soooo shaking right now I have never experience such shacking in my life
Kimberley - Very Scary feeling
Johanesburg - Parkwood, Jhb. Heard the slightly ajar glass door rattle, realised it was a tremor. It started with light shaking and then became more intense, cups on desks and windows and the glass door desks rattled. The shaking started becoming slightly more intense and I felt that it may get much worse but then it started to die down. It took a while for the tremors to finally end, with very light tremors lasting a fair few seconds
Edenvale - Windows & building rattling for a long time
johannesburg - A bit scary, when you hear your printer rattling on your desk - nothing broken.
Pretoria - Moderate shaking of the building for about 15 seconds
Johannesburg - shaking walls and windows for appr. 60 sec - no damage - strongest earthquake I ever felt...very scary!
Vereeniging - It was a very quick tremor. Felt ground shake, but was over in 3 seconds.
Rustenburg - Felt it at around 12:20 pm in Rustenburg CBD, my husband phoned from the farm 30km to Swartruggens side and had also felt it at the same time.
Johannesburg - Felt it no damage.
Potchefstroom - Shaking and trembling for over 1 minute
Kempton Park - Sitting in my car at a stop street, thought my car developed a missfire.
Pretoria - No damage. Slight shaking for about three seconds.
Johannesburg - So scary considering we do not have earthquakes
Pretoria - 2nd Floor, glasses and picture frames and loose items trambling
Gauteng - Very strong Earth Tremor. Earthquake, everything was shaking, doors, windows, tables, i heard the floor vibrate aswell. No damage though. Lasted about 20 seconds! Biggest one as of yet, whole of South Africa felt it!
Randburg - no damage, just started with light shaking then became more intense. Roof and electric fence were moving the most. Also felt by my parents out in Hartebeestpoort
Johannesburg - No damage. Not the first quake I've experienced here, but definitely lasted longer and larger than before.
Johannesburg - We are at VodaWorld. Some people in the building felt a small shake of the building for a few seconds
Sandton, JHB - At 12:35, we felt a moderate shaking of the 9 floor building - this lasted for 2 mins
Marikana - 30 - 40 seconds tremmor
Potchefstroom - Started weak, so I thought its the train passing and then became stronger. Was ready to take my bags and run but didnt know where I'd run to. Scary experience indeed.
Krugersdorp - Shelves fell over
Potchefstroom - WEll we grabbed our stuff and went outside the office haha
Sandton - It must have last more than a minutes. The building shook and poeple got up to escape the building
sasolburg - Whole bulding shaked and knocked the files off of the cabenits. Desks and walls were shaking
Ga-Luka - No damage but furniture and windows rattled.
Rosslyn - No damage - just shaking
kimberley - Very mild shaking but it felt like it went on for a long time. Our prayers to all people underground!
Pretoria - Was sitting in our office when the glass doors, desk, windows started shaking, i fell over when i tried to walk out.
Vryburg - My first experience.
Krugersdorp - 60-90 seconds no damage
pretoria - Wow. Please tell us that this wont happen again. i was in shock when i saw my flat sceen shaking
Zeerust - Shaking for about 7-8 seconds at 12:23 and no damage. Experienced it first time!
RUSTENBURG - Shaking a lot. I was so shock to realize it was a earthquake
Pretoria - i was in my office and the whole desk and monitor was shaking, i ran outside because i was scared the upper office will fall on top of me
Randburg, Jhb - I felt the ground shaking for 30-40 seconds, everything on my desk was rattling and the dog ran inside a little bewildered and hid behind my desk.
Potchefstroom - was on the third story ,people ran outside
Potchefstroom - The tremours lasted much longer than usual ... about a minute and it was strong for most of that time. At least two waves of tremours and then continued rumbling/ vibration. Ceiling boards fell out of roofs, cracks appeared in buildings. I just kept thinking what about the miners underground!
mpumalanga - my windows and beds were shaking about 12:30 approx. Not heavily but enough to feel the earth shaking. no damage but praying for the miners and people clos er that experienced it badly. Here not even everyone felt it.
Centurion - It felt if someone shook the apartment and the bed where I sat on. no damage though. The floor, walls and all the furniture moved around. quite scary experience. definitely first time experience
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